{"id":237,"date":"2007-03-09T13:21:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-09T20:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merchantaccountblog.com\/archives\/237"},"modified":"2010-10-15T15:01:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T20:01:50","slug":"simple-terminals-are-still-best-for-most-equipment-under-200","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/237\/simple-terminals-are-still-best-for-most-equipment-under-200","title":{"rendered":"Simple terminals are still best for most, Great equipment can be under $200."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Credit card terminal technology is finally starting to progress into 1990&#8217;s technology. However, how much technology does it take to process a credit card?<\/p>\n<p>With the exception of businesses needing to process over an Ethernet \/ IP connection, the simplest terminals are still the best choice for most businesses. <\/p>\n<p>With the cost of higher-end terminals approaching $500 when purchased from an online retailer, what does $200 get you nowadays? For $200 or less, most businesses can get a terminal that is perfectly acceptable for their business&#8217;s processing needs. These terminals all have thermal printer, can accept PIN pads, smart card readers, check readers, contactless readers, and just about any other peripheral that you need. <\/p>\n<p>The only thing that they cant do is process over an IP connection, and they cant handle some more advanced processing applications (which most businesses will never need).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Terminals under $200:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/processing-equipment\/credit-card-terminals\/nurit-2085\/\">Nurit 2085<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/processing-equipment\/credit-card-terminals\/omni-3730le\/\">Omni 3730LE<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/processing-equipment\/credit-card-terminals\/verifone-vx-510le\/\">VX 510LE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/processing-equipment\/credit-card-terminals\/hypercom-t7plus\/\">Hypercom T7 Plus<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/processing-equipment\/credit-card-terminals\/hypercom-t4205\/\">Hypercom T4205<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are in the market for a new terminal, and you are perfectly happy with processing over a standard telephone line, save yourself some money and stick to a basic terminal. Don&#8217;t let someone <em>(including yourself)<\/em> talk you into something that you don&#8217;t need, just because it is the next great thing.  Apart from the price, these low cost terminals are easier to operate, more reliable, and much less expensive to replace than higher-end terminals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit card terminal technology is finally starting to progress into 1990&#8217;s technology. However, how much technology does it take to process a credit card? With the exception of businesses needing to process over an Ethernet \/ IP connection, the simplest terminals are still the best choice for most businesses. With the cost of higher-end terminals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-credit-card-equipment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1336,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merchantequip.com\/merchant-account-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}